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The Book Jumper: A Strand Adventure (February Edition)

2/15/2014

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Hi Write Queeners,

The Book Jumper strikes again! This time I have a list from a once in a lifetime adventure (okay, maybe this might happen again, but definitely not anytime soon!) to the Strand Books Warehouse. The warehouse is a labyrinth of books in no particular order that makes sense to the average person. You   have to search up, down, side to side and around the world for a book that catches your attention or your particular genre. The warehouse is moving from its Flushing Avenue location in Brooklyn to a bigger warehouse, so to help ease the hardships of moving, they are having a sale this weekend only!

Paperbacks are $1 while hardcovers are $2 and everything else is up to $5. You can get a bag and fill it till your heart's content for $15 or fill a box for $30. 

I am a creature of habit and obsession so all the books I acquired for myself were poetry books (with the exception of three and some random DVDs and audiobooks for my mom). It was a heck of a mission to find any, having to guess by title and shape if a book was possibly a poetry book. I got there around 2:30 and I didn't leave until their 5 o'clock closing. In the end, I found 32 poetry books. For 15 bucks, that is an amazing and dreamlike steal.

A warehouse full of books with the snow falling outside - cozy right? Swoonville!

Since I am a shareaholic, I spent some time typing up a list of my finds and providing links to where you can buy them (mostly Amazon, my favorite site in the world!). Let's read them together or let me know if you have read any of them before and what you thought of them in the comments.
  1. Nerd Haiku by Robb Pearlman
  2. The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
  3. Byt by William Fuller
  4. Panic by Laura McCullough
  5. Mole by Patrick Warner
  6. Treason by Terese Svoboda
  7. Light's Reservoir by Rebecca Lilly
  8. Obscenely Yours by Angelo Nikolopoulos
  9. The Time at The End of This Writing by Paolo Javier
  10. Scratching for Something by Kim White
  11. Trace by Eric Pankey
  12. Green is for World by Juliana Leslie
  13. The First Flag by Sarah Fox
  14. Roads by Joseph Spece
  15. Rough Day by Ed Skoog
  16. Failure and I Bury The Body by Sasha West
  17. Alight by Fady Joudah
  18. Handling Destiny by Adrian Castro
  19. The Swing Girl by Katherine Soniat
  20. Saltwater Empire by Raymond McDaniel
  21. Bright Body Aliki Barnstone
  22. Road Scatter by Sandra Meek
  23. Facing It Again by Corinne Robins
  24. Writers Writing Dying by C.K. Williams
  25. The Next Hunger by Cloutier Green
  26. Mother Desert by Jo Sarzotti
  27. Upriver by Carolyn Kremers
  28. The Exchange by Sophie Cabot Black
  29. Swoop by Hailey Leithauser
  30. Necessities by Christopher Merrill
  31. Living in Quiet by David Kherdian
  32. From A Season of Sleep by Sreya Bremtin

Non-Poetry extras:

  • Laughter by Henri Bergson
  • Dirty Yiddish by Adrienne Gusoff
  • Signposts to Elsewhere by Yahia Lababidi

Tomorrow, February 16th is the last day so go go go! Here's a link to help you figure out where you are going: Book Sale!
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1 Comment
Mariaisabel
2/15/2014 03:06:14 pm

I haven't read any of these but I'm a sucker for these titles! "Failure and I Bury the Body" and "Nerd Haiku" caught my eye immediately. Happy reading!

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